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On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 11:04 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> When I bought my current TV, I avoided the smart ones. At the time, it |
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> was new technology and people were talking about how buggy it was so I |
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> bought a regular TV. If I had to buy one today, I'd buy a smart one. |
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> They seem to work pretty well now. Nice and stable at least. Still, I |
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> check to make sure whatever I buy is based on Linux as its OS. One can |
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> usually check the manual and see the copyright notice in the last few |
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> pages. It mentions the kernel. If it mentions windoze, I move on. LQ |
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> is almost always Linux based. |
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> I'm at the point where I know I need to do this. It's just getting |
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> there. I even thought about putting the OS on a USB stick. After all, |
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> once booted, it won't access the stick very often. I could even load it |
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> into memory at boot up and it not even need the stick at all once |
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> booted. Like is done with some Gentoo install media. |
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> One of these days. |
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Fair enough. |
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You might also investigate whether a newer Roku/AppleTV type |
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machine will access a network share. I suspect they will. |
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TrueNAS will run from a USB stick. You'll need two - one for |
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the setup media and a second to install it to, but after that you |
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only need storage drives to hold your backups or media. |
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I think a NAS for backups and media playback makes sense. |
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You want the machine on most of the time, but if you shut it |
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down it won't generally stop you from using your main computer. |
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On the other hand, with NVMe drives in my new machine I |
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have no spinning media so I use the NAS as a network store |
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much as you envision watching movies on your TV, but for me |
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it's mostly astrophotography data. |
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Have fun. Happy Easter if you celebrate it. Happy Sunday if |
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you don't. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |